A Call from the FSSP French District: offer up your Lent for Catholic Unity

In this Lenten season, some among our friends have taken the initiative of offering up their struggles and sacrifices for reconciliation and unity between all Catholics.

At a moment in which the dialogue between the Society of Saint Pius X [SSPX] and the Holy See reaches a decisive point for the future, the District of France [of the FSSP] encourages its friends to double their fervor in prayer.

Yes we are all giving prayers for strength to the Holy Father and the SSPX. They are needed in the Church and it is time to put an end to this unfortunate time in the Church's history. We need to move forward with the SSPX squarely in Rome's corner to help restore some of what has been lost.

Full kudos and gratitude to the FSSP for their wonderful show of unity with the SSPX. God willing, both societies plus the ICK, the SSPV and all other trad clergies and religious will unite in full communion to correct the terrible damage caused by the liberals. We need all the soldiers we can get.

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Just a maybe interesting remark: the music you can hear in the hotsite is a novena in honor of Nossa Senhora do Pilar (Patroness of the city of Vila Rica) by Brazilian composer Francisco Gomes da Rocha (1746-1808, Vila Rica, Minas Gerais).

The life of the Church has been riven with divisions since the Dividing Council of Vatican II. Perhaps the worst aspect of this is the all too evident disunity amongst traditionalist Catholics, which has done the cause great harm. So this gesture from the FSSP is to be applauded.It sometimes looks as if some chastisement on a grand scale is what it will take to jolt the Church back onto the tracks. If we read the signs of the times, there are many indications that such an event might not be so far off. The Vatican II hierarchy has allied itself so closely to modern trends that it will collapse when this hollow and rotten society does. It lacks the supernatural vision needed to survive, and has abandoned the notion of a Church Militant. As far as the Vatican II hierarchy is concerned, the real enemy consists in those groups of unreconstitued Catholics who hold to the time honoured teachins and practices of the Faith. the trads need to get their act together now so that they are prepared for whatever comes.

You don't have to add one more Novena or regimen to your list. You can have all your intentions in just one Novena if you wanted to. There is no stipulation you have to have only one intention per Novena.

Here's a perk. Go to Mass for nine days specifically as a Novena offering up your all there and then. The Graces which come from that regardless of the answer is tremendous.